"Alabama Troops Avert Threatened Lynching."
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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
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"Threats of a wholesale lynching of nine young negroes charged with criminally attacking two white girls were calmed when the Alabama national guard was called out to guard the jail at Scottsboro. The girls, accompanied by a half-brother of one of them, were hoboing their way back from Chattanooga where they had been in search of work when the young negro hoboes attacked them in a box car. The prisoners, who face the death penalty under Alabama law, are shown here under guard."
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1931 March 30
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130Keywords
- African Americans
- Alabama. National Guard
- Capture & Imprisonment
- Civil Rights
- Montgomery, Olen, B. 1914
- Norris, Clarence
- Patterson, Haywood, B. 1912
- Powell, Ozie, B. 1914?
- Roberson, Willie, B.1913
- Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931
- Weems, Charlie, B. 1911
- Williams, Eugene, B. 1917
- Wright, Andy, B. 1912
- Wright, Leroy, 1918 1959